INN FIRE CHECKED

A blaze thought to have arisen from a cigar stub dropped behind a radiator in the sample room, which occured early in the afternoon of Tuesday, March 23, was extinguished by the efficient work of the Hanover firemen before it had wreaked as much damage as was at first feared it might. The loss, principally due to water, is estimated at less than a thousand dollars, and this amount is fully covered by insurance.

The fire started in the sample room occupied at the time by the goods of Clement, a Nashua tailor, and Vocke, a shoeman from Boston. Before it was discovered and checked it had mounted to the second floor. By four o'clock, however, the town department had things under control by ripping up the floor and partition where "the flame was at work.